{"id":11948,"date":"2015-10-07T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11948"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:53:09","slug":"telling-it-like-it-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11948","title":{"rendered":"Telling it like it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/cuomo-calls-federal-gov-weapons-n-y-article-1.2387173\" target=\"_blank\">Telling it like it is<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; <a href=\"mailto:tking@nysrpa.org\" target=\"_blank\">Tom King<\/a>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"_blank\">NRA<\/a> board member from New York who also heads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysrpa.org\" target=\"_blank\">the state Rifle and Pistol Association<\/a>, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Cuomo\u2019s<\/a> comments \u201cpure political theater.\u201d \u201cThe governor is using a tragedy out in Oregon to try and rejuvenate a failed political career,\u201d King said. \u201cHe\u2019s trying to build it on the graves of the people who were killed up there.\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bullseye!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa DeRosa called it \u201cdisappointing but not surprising that Tom King would resort to baseless personal attacks rather than discuss the merits of common sense gun control \u2014 it\u2019s easier than confronting the fact that more than 80,000 people have died due to gun violence since Sandy Hook.\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Direct hit and Cuomo knows it.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D11948&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11948\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11948\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11948\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telling it like it is: &#8220;&#8230; Tom King, an NRA board member from New York who also heads the state Rifle and Pistol Association, called Cuomo\u2019s comments \u201cpure political theater.\u201d \u201cThe governor is using a tragedy out in Oregon to try and rejuvenate a failed political career,\u201d King said. \u201cHe\u2019s trying to build it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D11948&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11948\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11948\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11948\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11951,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions\/11951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}